MRI - Acquisition of a high resolution multibeam sonar for coastal ocean research

MRI - 获取用于沿海海洋研究的高分辨率多波束声纳

• 批准号: 2117693
• 负责人: Peter Straub
• 金额: $ 30.16万
• 依托单位: Stockton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117693&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; resolution; multibeam; sonar

Acquisition of a multibeam echosounder sonar (MBES) mapping system will galvanize marine research and educational programs at Stockton University, a regional, comprehensive, primarily undergraduate institution. This project will increase the capacity to integrate research with teaching in the areas of remote sensing of coastal evolution, succession and submerged structure ecology and habitat value. Masters and undergraduate students will benefit from this advanced technology for research. Stockton researchers have been assisting the state of New Jersey and its coastal communities for over 35 years to map and assess their coastal resources and quantify shoreline change caused by multiple forcing mechanisms including climate change and sea level rise. Acquisition of a cutting-edge multibeam sonar system will enable Stockton researchers to expand their mapping capabilities and to collect data from deeper sites. This advanced mapping technology will also contribute to citizen science underwater archaeology projects at Stockton and to engagement with the recreational fishing, diving and boating communities who benefit from mapping and study of artificial reefs.The MBES system will provide high-resolution and multi-spectral capabilities for ongoing studies of coastal processes in the Mid-Atlantic and contribute to coastal evolution research to fill recognized data gaps. Simultaneous data collection at multiple frequencies allows multi-spectral analysis of bottom composition and contributes to bottom classification for habitat and resource studies. High-resolution capabilities will contribute to mapping fine structure of artificial reefs and energy generation infrastructure introduced into the underwater environment. Documenting change over time in benthic habitat, physical and biological components, as well as effects of submerged structures on ecological succession are challenging research questions. The research enabled by this instrument will expand on previous state and federal projects and be used to contribute to the development of a framework of the regional coastal ocean and inlet systems. This research is crucial in evaluation of decisions to support carbon neutral energy technologies such as offshore wind and to gauge the potential effects, positive and negative, and tradeoffs of overlaying a large underwater structural energy footprint, with its own expected biological community trajectory, over an already stressed benthic ecosystem.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

获得多波束回声测深仪声纳（MBES）测绘系统将激发斯托克顿大学的海洋研究和教育计划，这是一个区域性的，综合性的，主要是本科院校。该项目将提高在遥感沿海演变、演替和水下结构生态学和生境价值等领域将研究与教学结合起来的能力。 硕士和本科生将受益于这种先进的研究技术。 斯托克顿的研究人员35年来一直在协助新泽西州及其沿海社区绘制和评估其沿海资源，并量化由气候变化和海平面上升等多种强迫机制引起的海岸线变化。 购买先进的多波束声纳系统将使斯托克顿的研究人员能够扩大他们的测绘能力，并从更深的地点收集数据。 这一先进的测绘技术还将有助于斯托克顿的公民科学水下考古项目，并有助于与从人工礁测绘和研究中受益的休闲渔业、潜水和划船社区的接触，MBES系统将为正在进行的中大西洋海岸过程研究提供高分辨率和多光谱能力，并有助于海岸演变研究，以填补公认的数据空白。 在多个频率同时收集数据，可以对海底成分进行多光谱分析，有助于为生境和资源研究进行海底分类。 高分辨率能力将有助于绘制人工鱼礁的精细结构和引入水下环境的能源生产基础设施。 记录海底生境、物理和生物成分随时间的变化以及水下结构对生态演替的影响是具有挑战性的研究问题。 这一工具促成的研究将扩大以前的州和联邦项目，并用于促进区域沿海海洋和入口系统框架的发展。 这项研究对于评估支持碳中和能源技术（如海上风电）的决策至关重要，并评估潜在的积极和消极影响，以及覆盖大型水下结构能源足迹的权衡，以及其自身预期的生物群落轨迹，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。